Brookwood Middle School

Located at 200 E Glenwood Lansing Rd, in Glenwood, Illinois, Brookwood Middle School is a tight-knit 6-8 campus that caters to 231 students (grades 5 through 6), run under Brookwood SD 167. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 462.

Brookwood Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Brookwood SD 167, a district that caters to 1,098 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Brookwood Middle School reports that Black students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookwood Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.8%; Brookwood Middle School posts 16.3%, -15.5 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Brookwood Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Brookwood Jr High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brookwood Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookwood Middle School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookwood Middle School has contracted 12%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 231 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 15% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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